There are two UN Conventions on Statelessness. They seek to protect people who are currently stateless and prevent and end statelessness globally. Countries decide who their nationals are, setting ...

The UN General Assembly adopted the new United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime on Tuesday, the first international criminal justice treaty negotiated in over two decades. Adopted without a vote ...

It’s a moment of goosebumps and long-awaited vindication for the HelpAge network and countless activists who have tirelessly championed the call for an international legally binding instrument (new UN ...

Today, the Council approved conclusions in view of the Conference of Parties on the Convention on biological diversity (COP16) and the meetings on the Cartagena protocol and the Nagoya protocol, to be ...

Partners of the Ocean Pavilion, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, are calling on world leaders to make robust, long-term ...

"Even after seven sessions of negotiations, there is still no consensus on the basic scope of the Convention or its safeguards against misuse" - ARTICLE 19 This statement was originally published on ...

His Excellency Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international ...

(opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) Copy 2024’s 14th Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWGA) session marks a pivotal ‘make or break’ ...

Signatories stress that the Convention should only move forward if it pursues a specific goal of combating cybercrime without endangering the human rights and fundamental freedoms of those it seeks to ...

Whereas the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted on 13 February 1946 a resolution contemplating the unification as far as possible of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by the United ...

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Only two countries in the world have not joined the UN Convention on Biological ...